We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Food and the Making of AmericansGhulam Bombaywala sells bagels in Houston. Demetrios dishes up pizza in Connecticut. The Wangs serve tacos in Los Angeles. How ethnicity has influenced American eating habits—and thus, the make-up and direction of the American cultural mainstream—is the story told in We Are What We Eat. It is a complex tale of ethnic mingling and borrowing, of entrepreneurship and connoisseurship, of food as a social and political symbol and weapon—and a thoroughly entertaining history of our culinary tradition of multiculturalism. |
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User Review - waterloom - LibraryThingGabaccia compares the food cultures of immigrant Italians, Irish, and Eastern European Jews, offering rich insights into each, as well as valuable comparisons. I have used this book numerous times in ... Read full review
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User Review - mattviews - LibraryThingI picked up this book in hope of mitigating the intensity of reading back-to-back some very tenacious literature and historical fiction. It was a miscalculation. We Are What We Eat, though interesting ... Read full review
Contents
Colonial Creoles | 10 |
Immigration Isolation and Industry | 36 |
Ethnic Entrepreneurs | 64 |
Crossing the Boundaries of Taste | 93 |
Food Fights and American Values | 122 |
The Big Business of Eating | 149 |
Of Cookbooks and Culinary Roots | 175 |
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We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans Donna R. Gabaccia,Donna R Gabaccia Limited preview - 2009 |